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I personally don’t think people own ideas, so I think the DM and the player can each do whatever they want. As a player, all of my characters end up with happy endings, regardless of what the DM does. For example, if my character dies in some other DM’s campaign, I just bring him into my...

I don’t think they’ll screw up Wish, so my 5.5 sorcerer will use it to trade out the lame version of Arcane Apotheosis with the better one and 5.5 Twinned with 5.0.

Is Vow of Chastity still a thing?

Well, that’s good to know. “Overpowered” is not a word anyone uses to describe my bard builds. Nor is “powered”. Usually, the words are “oh yeah, we have a bard”.

For my 5.5 bard, it looks like a one-level dip is the way to go. Will likely cast Foresight most days, so the bard capstone is not that great. But I’ll want to raise CHA to 22 at level 19. First level in warlock gives my drow/halfling (with halfling stats) Devil’s Sight, which would otherwise...

If I had to larp.

Have to be a cleric to Wish for anything and be assured of keeping Wish.

There’s always been confusion. At this point, it’s endearing. “Make a save…You are now poisoned and take X damage.” “Do I suffer from the poisoned condition or just take the damage?” DM double-checks the wording.

Agreed. It looks like to avoid exhaustion, the requirement is to drink the water, but I can see some/many DMs ruling no benefit is gained.

Couldn’t one just cast it 16 times or 32 times on a hot day?

My lore bard will miss not having advantage on BI (Cunning Inspiration from first playtest). The sorcerer and cleric can now Wish for anything without the 1/3 chance of losing Wish. Makes me more inclined to play one of those classes and just Wish for the bard stuff I want.

I’d be okay with this for non-sorcerers. :)

If the 5.5 bard takes a cantrip with Magical Secrets, it eats up one of their cantrip slots if I’m reading 5.5 Magical Secrets right. So a 5.0 lore bard could have 12 cantrips, whereas max for 5.5 bard is 4. That’s a bit of a change.

I’d play a rogue if they were the best at skills. They have a higher floor but lore bards have a higher ceiling and I prefer the latter.

A combination of them being good at skills and their reputation (stereotypically at least) for not taking things too seriously. If bards had no magic, I feel like my bard could still get by and if there was something big he wanted magic-wise, like a Wish, he could potentially eventually get that...

The DIET arcane list is pretty restrictive, but I’ve come to the conclusion I’d still prefer bard over other classes even if they had no magic.

I’d say yes.

It’s better than True Polymorph in that it (your new race) can’t be dispelled. And there would be no new race for custom lineage creatures as there was no old race.

Per the 2e book of elves, elves were meticulously created over eons, whereas the other races were hastily and shabbily thrown together. If you go by that, there is no competition.

It ain’t braggin’ if it’s true.